Sorry I forgot to sign my post, I haven't posted in a long time.
The post was about the names - there had been a previous post
ruminating on what the significance of their names was. So I posted
what the Gemara had to say. - that the names of the
Meraglim (which the Torah lists) hint to the evil intentions they had
before they departed.
Shoshanna Walker
>Shoshanna,
>>Besides the fact that you didn't sign your post, I fail to see the relevance
>of this passage to the discussion at hand. No-one was asking whether the
>spies had good intentions or bad ones.
>>>Yigal Levin
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>From: "Shoshanna Walker" <rosewalk at concentric.net>
>To: <b-hebrew at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 7:14 PM
>Subject: [b-hebrew] Gemara Sotah on the names of the spies
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>>>> 1) WERE THE SPIES RIGHTEOUS OR WICKED
>> QUESTION: The Gemara expounds the verse, "And they went, and they
>> returned"
>> (Bamidbar 13:26), and says that "just as the Meraglim returned with evil
>> plans, when they departed they already had evil intentions." This is also
>> evident from the Gemara earlier (34b) which says that
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